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Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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Post by anthk »

kragen wrote: post #102
Avshalom wrote: post #56

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The thing is, while it might mandate efficiency, what they made was an un optimized 8 bit VM synthesizing 16bit arithmetic running on 64 bit hardware. It's not efficient at all, it's just that the constraints they gave themselves leaves enormous amount of power on the table.

you will probably be interested in the efficiency measurements i made in the thread linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41132868 . the standard sdl uxn implementation is less inefficient for things like text editing than you'd expect from the facts you mention, and i suspect uxn11 may actually be pretty decent

SDL2 has been built as a fast whole/partial screen refreshing platform for textures/images, no wonder if it's that slow mimicking XFT/Cairo's job on fonts/text. Just look at the Emacs editor for Common Lisp vs the SDL build of Lem.

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Post by Bluestein »

networked wrote: post #295
Vegenoid wrote: post #134

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The simplest thing would be to simply link to a Youtube video, perhaps with a small warning that it will take them to Youtube which uses trackers. You could even make the link an image that is the thumbnail of the video. Not the prettiest or purest solution, but very simple.

What I do (first of all for performance) is use YouTube links and have a script that prepends each `a.embed` link with an "embed" button. The button turns the link into an embed and back. https://dbohdan.com/assets/embed.js

Neat solution.-

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Post by Bluestein »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #281
theendisney4 wrote: post #224

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I find it hilarious how despite endless bad press the giant data pump that is bittorrent just keeps on grinding without anyone behind the wheel, no updates, no bug fixes, and no interruption. People can scream, ball their fists and stomp their foot on the ground but daddy's money cant shut it down. We should all feel very embarresed such a thing is possible. You can apparently write software and/or create protocols t…

But people will tell you that software cannot be expected to work reliably and cannot function without a billion dollar corporation pushing constant updates. Even the ‘Bible’ app requires constant updates, I thought the final version was released quite some time ago

> without a billion dollar corporation pushing constant updates

... even when, sometimes, it is those very updates that bring the software down.-

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Post by 6510 »

saulpw wrote: post #160
jrvieira wrote: post #155

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why wouldn't you host your own video file? I don't understand this dependency on youtube

Streaming is important, especially for longer videos. I don't believe any static hosting site supports video streaming.

The video is 57 seconds long. Should be fine ~ kinda.

My host doesn't support video. If I point at a file it plays just fine but the server doesn't do partial content so the player crashes or stutters if the user attempts to seek outside what was downloaded. When the whole thing is downloaded it works smoothly but it isn't quite acceptable. There is no easy html way to preserve the seek/progress bar and `Accept-Ranges: none` has the same meaning as not setting the header(?)

I cant seem to find answers or bugs, all I find "make sure your server supports partial content" which really isn't required to make it work.

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Post by dwighttk »

lloeki wrote: post #233
Vegenoid wrote: post #134

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The simplest thing would be to simply link to a Youtube video, perhaps with a small warning that it will take them to Youtube which uses trackers. You could even make the link an image that is the thumbnail of the video. Not the prettiest or purest solution, but very simple.

I've seen youtube embeds be overlaid and say things like "this embed carries tracking, click here to load inline at your own peril or here to watch on original site" or something to that effect. Can't recall where though.

Duck duck go?

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Post by tomooot »

Bluestein wrote: post #93
VyseofArcadia wrote: post #74

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I think the general thesis statement is, "there are very few things we do today that couldn't have been done on older hardware".

Which, holds (?) PS. Except for AI, perhaps ... ... I was going to add certain forms of cryptography to that, but then realized that we've always have had some sort of cryptography that was "hardware-appropriate" (ie. sufficiently hard to break, to be useful) for the age. So older hardware was just fine ...

Neural nets using individual tubes as nodes? Although the current trend seems to be quantizing down to a minimal amount of bits to process more in parallel, in an analogue system you could have a near "continuous" range of values.

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Post by dwighttk »

Bluestein wrote: post #271
devjab wrote: post #251

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Gotta give the hemorrhoid doctors some work. Ideally you should finish your business rather fast, but I think a lot of people simply find a nice break on the toilet. Obviously food has an impact but if any type of *vore has long shits it’s probably because they aren’t getting enough fibre, another boon for the hemorrhoid doctors! The reason I know a shit should take 30 seconds is because there is this Danish doctor w…

No shit.-

Actually lots

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Post by graynk »

ForHackernews wrote: post #293
lannisterstark wrote: post #241

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The problem is that none of their problems are real problems and there's nothing to minimize when they're not real. You cannot minimize made up first world problems

No, they really do live on a sailboat with intermittent power and internet access. Unless you take "made up" to mean "as a result of their choices" these are real problems, and ironically enough not problems faced by most people in the first world. https://checkpointgaming.net/features/2020/05/making-games-a...

> Unless you take "made up" to mean "as a result of their choices"

Not the original poster, but that’s my view exactly. If you impose the limitations upon yourself then it’s not really a “problem” for you, is it now. You just can afford to make your life shittier for an “experience” to then have fun solving the issues you’ve created for yourself

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